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11 unusual facts about the Citadel


1966–67 The Citadel Bulldogs basketball team

The 1966–67 The Citadel Bulldogs basketball team represented The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in the 1966–67 NCAA University Division men's basketball season.

2001–02 The Citadel Bulldogs basketball team

The 2001–02 The Citadel Bulldogs basketball team represented The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in the 2001–02 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.

2008–09 The Citadel Bulldogs basketball team

The 2008–09 The Citadel Bulldogs basketball team represented The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in the 2008-09 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.

2009–10 The Citadel Bulldogs basketball team

The 2009–10 The Citadel Bulldogs basketball team represented The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in the 2009-10 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.

2011–12 The Citadel Bulldogs basketball team

The 2011–12 The Citadel Bulldogs basketball team represented The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in the 2011-12 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.

2012–13 The Citadel Bulldogs basketball team

The 2012–13 The Citadel Bulldogs basketball team represented The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in the 2012–13 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.

2013–14 The Citadel Bulldogs basketball team

The 2013–14 The Citadel Bulldogs basketball team represents The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in the 2013–14 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.

Mr. Two Bits

The cheer began when Edmondson attended the season opener for Florida in 1949 against his alma mater, The Citadel.

Robert E. Smith

Smith was born in Baltimore, Maryland and grew up in Washington, DC; in 1938 he entered The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina.

South Carolina State Arsenal

The school became known as the Citadel because of the appearance of its building.

Warren Adams

He graduated from The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in 1859, where he was the Commandant of the Corps of Cadets.


Cody Bragg

Bragg grew up in Plano, Texas, played club soccer for the Dallas Texans and in the Dallas Cup in the U19 Super Group, and went on to play college soccer at The Citadel from 2000 to 2003.

Danny Ford

Joe Kines brought Ford to the University of Arkansas in 1992 to help with the clean-up following Frank Broyles' firing of Jack Crowe (Ford's former offensive coordinator at Clemson) after a loss to the Citadel.

Douglas Porch

He has been a professor of strategy at the Naval War College, a guest lecturer at the Marine Corps University, a post-doctoral research fellow at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and the Mark W. Clark Professor of History at The Citadel.

James W. Duckett

Major General James W. Duckett, (July 8, 1911 – January 21, 1991) South Carolina Unorganized Militia, succeeded Gen Hugh P. Harris as President of The Citadel in 1970.

Joe Kines

Kines returned to college coaching in 1991 as the defensive coordinator at the University of Arkansas and was promoted to head coach of the Razorbacks in 1992 when Jack Crowe was fired following a season-opening loss to The Citadel.

John E. Pitts, Jr.

Pitts was born in Auburn, Alabama, the son of John E. "Boozer" and Martha Pitts, and attended Auburn High School and The Citadel.

Nick Buoniconti

In 1985, after his son Marc suffered a paralyzing spinal cord injury making a tackle for The Citadel, Nick became the public face of the group that founded the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, now one of the world's leading neurological research centers.

Statesville Christian School

The students gained admission to some of the region’s most selective colleges including Davidson College, Wake Forest University, UNC-Chapel Hill, The Citadel, Cedarville University, Wheaton University, North Carolina State, Baylor University and a number of other outstanding colleges and universities, like Liberty University and Texas Christian University.

Sybil Stockdale

He was present at the August 4, 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident, spent 7-1/2 years under torture as a POW in North Vietnam, later became President of The Citadel, and eventually ran for Vice-President of the United States with Ross Perot heading the ticket.

The Cronin Omnibus

The Cronin Omnibus is a single volume of three A. J. Cronin novels: Hatter's Castle, The Citadel, and The Keys of the Kingdom.

Tommy Laurendine

Tommy Laurendine (born c. 1968) is the head coach of the Sewanee: The University of the South (Sewanee) college football team in Sewanee, Tennessee, and previously served as an offensive coordinator at Washington & Lee, West Alabama, Southern Arkansas, Lenoir–Rhyne and The Citadel.

William M. Steele

A native of Atlanta, Georgia, he graduated from The Citadel in 1967 and earned a Master of Arts in Management from Webster University in St. Louis.